HE IS IN EVERY SCENE OF YOUR LIFE

Our understanding of the Holy Spirit is often confined to specific  times and places. For example: at church on Sunday’s between 10:30am and  11:45am, on Monday through Friday between 6:45am and 7:00am during  personal devotion time, and on Wednesdays between 7:00pm and 9:00pm for  bible study/home group…and then that’s it. We’re pleased with ourselves  and think we have ‘done good’ for having put in our time-quota and  ticked off all the boxes of how a Christian life is described, or we  just don’t see a place for Jesus during the rest of our week, nor see  Him in places outside the walls of our churches or prayer closets.  Instead, we carry on with “our” life as usual.

Wait a minute. Whose life is it? 

We were purchased with a high price and we are no longer our own. In  fact, we have the Holy Spirit who dwells within us all the time.

1 Corinthians 6:19 Don’t you realize that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who  lives in you and was given to you by God? You do not belong to yourself.

Recently I heard someone say that they didn’t want to bug God for the  small stuff. They willfully left God out of a need that they had and  said their prayer request would have been too small for it to matter to  God and that they should be able to handle it on their own.

First of all: 

God cares for all of your needs and is so intimately acquainted with  you that he knows before you even know what you need and what to pray  for.

Matthew 6:8 Don’t be like them, for your Father knows exactly what you need even before you ask him!

1 Peter 5:7 Give all your worries and cares to God, for he cares about you

Luke 12:7 And  the very hairs on your head are all numbered. So don’t be afraid; you  are more valuable to God than a whole flock of sparrows.

Secondly:

The Holy Spirit lives in you all the time!

John 14:16-17 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate who will never leave you. 17 He  is the Holy Spirit, who leads into all truth. The world cannot receive  him, because it isn’t looking for him and doesn’t recognize him. But you  know him, because he lives with you now and later will be in you

Therefore:

The Holy Spirit is part of every detail of your life.  Big or small. With no exceptions!

Galatians 5:25 Since we are living by the Spirit, let us follow the Spirit’s leading in every part of our lives.

Hebrews 13:5 Don’t love money; be satisfied with what you have. For God has said,“I will never fail you. I will never abandon you.”

Acts 17:28 For in him we live and move and exist. As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’

So, if the Holy Spirit is with us always, why on earth would we try to go it alone? 

God knew that we would not be able to do life as He intended for us  to do on our own. That’s why He sent the Holy Spirit. God didn’t suggest  the Holy Spirit. We’ve been empowered by the indwelling of the Holy  Spirit, so that we could be in continuous fellowship with Him.

Proverbs 3:5-6 Trust in the Lord with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding. 6 Seek his will in all you do, and he will show you which path to take.

Isaiah 55:8-9 “My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts,” says the Lord. “And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine.9 For  just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so my ways are higher  than your ways and my thoughts higher than your thoughts.

HE is there for every part of our lives. HE is in every scene of every day, because He is in us ALL THE TIME.

We just need for that to really sink in. If we are saved by faith,  having never seen Jesus, we also receive the Holy Spirit by faith as  part of our salvation (whether we see Him or not).

Romans 8:11 The Spirit of God, who raised Jesus from the dead, lives in you. And  just as God raised Christ Jesus from the dead, he will give life to your  mortal bodies by this same Spirit living within you.

So, if the Spirit of the Living God lives within us, then He is with  us all the time and not just at church on Sundays, during devotionals in  the am, and not just at home group. He is with us always. 

Without relying on the Holy Spirit, we cannot live the holy life that God has called us to live. 

Philippians 2:13 For God is working in you, giving you the desire and the power to do what pleases him.

Galatians 5:22-24 But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against these things!

Try this exercise:                                                                                   

Make a list of every scene of your day and if you can draw,  make a storyboard, illustrating every scene.

For example, include:                                                                              

Not wanting to wake up when your alarm goes off. The frustrating breakfast scene when your kids won’t eat. The neighbour who lets their dog void in your prized rose  bushes.  In a long line at the gas station. Traffic. The office meeting that didn’t go so well.                                               

You get the idea.

Now go back through the list or storyboard and add the Holy Spirit to every scene!!!

That’s right! The Holy Spirit is there for everything, so why wouldn’t we lean into all of Him, all the time?

When we understand this, our perspective changes from specific times and places to ALWAYS.